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    A study guide for Frank Herbert's "Dune"
    A study guide for Frank Herbert's "Dune"
    A study guide for Frank Herbert's "Dune"
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    A study guide for Frank Herbert's "Dune"

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    A study guide for Frank Herbert's "Dune", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMay 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535823661
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      A study guide for Frank Herbert's "Dune" - Gale

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      Dune

      Frank Herbert

      1965

      Introduction

      Dune, published in 1965, helped transform the genre of science fiction from one of adolescent adventure to one of exploration of ideas. It was an unprecedented success in mainstream culture, becoming the first piece of genre science fiction to appear on the New York Times best-seller list. The importance of Dune in Herbert's career was paramount, ensuring his financial success, but also dooming him (and his son Brian Herbert) to a lifetime of writing sequels, since no other project could match its popularity. Dune has become the source of many media projects, including comic books, a feature film, a television miniseries, and a proposed new film series. Dune's influence has spread even further, becoming the inspiration for such media projects as Star Wars.

      Created in the 1960s, Dune bears the marks of the counterculture of that time in its concern for ecology. It also reflects the counterculture's distrust of authority and power in its portrayal of corrupt and manipulative institutions such as the Bene Gesserit, the CHOAM corporation, and the Spacing Guild that rule its fictive world. It also shares the optimism of the 1960s that human powers of imagination and perception could transcend and displace materialistic culture. However, Dune is, above all, an exploration of the role of religion and quasi-religious forces in human culture in the wake of the fascist hero cults of the 1920s and 1930s.

      Author Biography

      Herbert was born on October 8, 1920, in Tacoma, Washington. After a brief service in the army during World War II, he attended the University of Washington, but he did not obtain a degree because he refused to take required courses that he considered personally uninteresting and unnecessary. This marked the independence of thought that dominated his adult life. He took highly original viewpoints to arrive at highly creative solutions in his writing, but at the same time he was prone to imagine that his expertise extended to many areas in which he had no formal training. This led him to accept many pseudoscientific ideas in his own thought as well as exploring them in his writing; for instance, he believed that human can be stored in genetic material. Unusually for a science fiction author, he rejected the scientific method in favor of more holistic approaches to knowledge, whose results are, to say the least, unverifiable.

      Herbert worked as a journalist in the Pacific Northwest throughout the 1950s and 1960s, eventually becoming an editor at the San Francisco Examiner. At the same time, he occasionally published short stories in the science fiction pulp magazines, and in 1955 he published his first novel, known variously as Under Pressure or The Dragon in the Sea. This novel takes place during a future war between the United States and the Soviet Union and concerns a psychologist evaluating the effects of combat stress on the crew of an American nuclear submarine assigned to steal oil from the Soviet-occupied Persian Gulf. The theme of scientific psychological evaluation is typical of Herbert's work.

      Herbert took six years to write his next novel, Dune, which grew out of his convergent interests in religion, the psychology of totalitarianism, and ecology. It was serialized in Analog magazine between 1963 and 1965 and published in book form in 1965. It immediately won the two most prestigious awards in science fiction, the Nebula, awarded by the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the Hugo,

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